I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, and I remember learning about all the Apollo missions and astronauts going to the moon, and it always made me sad that it stopped being a thing well before I was born.
Fast forward to the Artemis II Mission where four astronauts are traveling around the moon and further out than humans have ever gone is so fascinating to me. I remember my parents telling me how exciting it was to follow the Apollo missions. I always wondering what that would be like. Now, I get a chance to experience it in my own way while I’m checking out the pictures coming back and the wonder of it all.
Hank Green on YouTube created a video that I think perfectly encapsulates the feelings I have been having about this mission.
I really hope we get to see more missions like this, and I would love to see NASA aim to put people on the moon again. Space is so much fun and always creates a childish wonder for me.
I started playing World of Warcraft in late 2006. I was introduced to the game by a friend I made at work. He actually purchased the game for me and my first month of game time. I think I played almost daily for a few years and loved it. Found out I had family that played as well and ended up spending a lot of time in the game.
I remember playing through the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. After that one, I think I’ve played off and on since. A lot of my family stopped playing, and some of the guilds I was a part of over the years disappeared leaving me to mainly play solo now, so I don’t really jump in like I used too. However, I still feel that pull to jump back in and see how the current story is playing out.
World of Warcraft just came out with another expansion called Midnight. I am experiencing a bit of FOMO right now. I really want to play, but I am much busier now than I was 20 years ago, and I don’t know if I can justify a monthly subscription for it only to play occasionally. But I really want to play again. It’s amazing to me how addicting a game can be.
I’ve been going through my old posts and fixing the posts that were imported over from Tumblr recently, and I came across a post from 2022 where I tried to have the Dall-E image generator create me an image of Penn and Teller performing a magic trick with Donald Duck. The result was a little disturbing:
I got to wondering how well the image generators would do now with a similar prompt, so I hopped onto Copilot and ChatGPT and tried to get them to create the image. No luck. Donald Duck is trademarked, and both didn’t want to create something with famous people in them.
Copilot even suggested that I create something with magicians inspired by Penn & Teller and a cartoon duck, so I tried that. It still rejected the prompt because the magicians it was thinking of creating would resemble Penn & Teller. That amused me, so I said “how about you just create an image of two magicians on a Vegas stage performing a trick with a duck.” It still rejected it because it would be too close to Penn & Teller and responded with “you can tell me to make fully original magicians.” So I did.
It looks like the system blocked that attempt because the request was still interpreted as involving real, identifiable people, even though we shifted to original characters.
I can’t generate this image under those constraints.
This is probably due to the fact that the conversation I was in with Copilot had me talking about Penn & Teller, so it was stuck on Penn & Teller even though I tried to move away from it. I’ve seen other people talk about this challenge that if you tell an AI to create an image of animals but no elephants, the AI will always add an elephant.
I did try to create a the image using a new chat thread, and this was the result:
Meanwhile, I decided to hop on X and see what Grok would do since that AI doesn’t have many guide rails like the others do, and this was the result:
I don’t know who the magicians are, but that is definitely Donald Duck.
The funny thing about this post was I wanted to comment on how much image generation has improved over the last four years, and I ended up going down a different AI rabbit hole of fighting with the AI because of the restrictions that are now in place.
This amused me and helped me waste 30 minutes of my day.
I’ve decided to go back to hosting my own blog again instead of using a site like Tumblr. I made the move a few years back to simply the process and just post random stuff, but I find that sometimes I want to share something that doesn’t quite work with Tumblr or show up the way I want it to, so I’m moving back to hosting my blog on its own web server. This should allow me to have a little more creativity with the content I share.
I decided to update the blog name to highlight more of what the blog is about: random stuff. Whatever I want to write about, so that is why I’m going with Willenator Unscripted. No primary focus or purpose just my thoughts on whatever I feel like writing about.
The posts older than this one may not show up properly as the import was a bit weird and primarily pulled text, but none of the embedded links to YouTube videos or music, so I’ll have to fix the older posts that don’t display properly when I have some free time.
You may notice that comments are turned off. This is intentional as I’m not big into blog comments. You are more than welcome to send me feedback via Twitter if you would like, or you can write about one of my posts on your own blog. I have those fun pingback stuff turned on, so I should see it if you link back to something I’ve written. That’s always fun.
Either way, I plan to enjoy myself and just open up for the world to read or ignore!
First time I heard this new Nickelback song, I wasn’t sure about it. Now that I’ve listened to it a few times, I’ve added it to my latest song rotation.
Just found out the Backrooms movie is going to be rated R. I’m not sure how I feel about that because I think it means they are going to add in some things that I probably won’t like. I was really looking forward to some pure psychological stuff like in the YouTube videos by Kane Pixels. I know there are some monsters that do appear, but I worry they may push it into a gore area that is just unnecessary for something like the Backrooms. I hope I’m wrong, but I am worried.
I’m old enough to have seen the He-Man cartoons when I was a kid, but I don’t really remember them. When I saw the teaser trailer for Masters of the Universe a few months back, this looked like the type of movie I would enjoy. Now that the full trailer is out, I definitely know this will be a movie I will enjoy.
The music in this trailer sounds amazing as well. I can’t wait to see this on the big screen!
This trailer looks so good. Reminds me of a bunch of Spider-Man comic covers. I’m also super excited for this movie. I feel like Tom Holland plays a fantastic Peter Parker, and I love that his story continues.
